Heat recovery

The energy performance of a heat recovery system is influenced by a number of factors. These typically include the (energy-to-energy, steam-to-steam, steam-to-water, water-to-water, or other fluid-to-other fluid) flow rate, temperature, pressure, density and/or heat capacity. Other factors will also include the heat recovery efficiency and the number of hours that the heat recovery system is operating. Refer to the Heat Exchangers Examples for more information.

Software & Data
The RETScreen Software Heat Recovery Model can be used worldwide to evaluate the energy use and savings, costs, emission reductions, financial viability and risk for waste heat recovery projects. The software can model a wide variety of projects in industrial and other types of facilities ranging from products preheating before drying using hot plant effluents in the chemical and petrochemical industry, to water heating using a condensing economizer at the boiler stack in pulp and paper mills, to waste heat recovery from refrigeration systems to produce hot water in dairy and meat processing plants. The software (available in multiple languages) also includes product, project and climate databases, and a detailed user manual.

To access the Portable Document Format (PDF) version you must have a PDF reader installed. If you do not already have such a reader, there are numerous PDF readers available for free download or for purchase on the Internet: